Seeing as I'm up for some awards as a Buddhist blogger I should start to act like one. Here are some items that recently caught my atten...

My blog has been nominated for several Blogisattva awards , honoring "excellence in English-language Buddhist blogging during calendar ...

Conventional futurist wisdom suggests that if our atmosphere should completely go to pot -- which it certainly appears to be doing -- human...

I sat down with my son recently to watch an old sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still . This film is drenched in the 1950's welt...

The last couple of weeks have seen a number of highly anticipated releases: The Shins: Wincing the Night Away - eagerly awaited 3rd release...

The minority Conservative government in Canada is launching a series of attack ads in which they slam the Liberals and their new leader, Ste...

I'm the kind of person who learns by doing. This blog is largely a place for me to think out loud as I figure things out and formulate m...

What is Enlightenment? + Zaadz has an extremely interesting interview with mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme in which he discusses the ...

My latest audiocast has been posted here . You can subscribe to this feed . In this episode I ask the question: when did intelligence first ...

Influential bioethicist Peter Singer has waded into the Ashley X debate and, as usual, is not afraid to plunge head-first into controversy....

Genomes can be nasty. All they care about is self-replication, an agenda that often leads to some very strange and not-so-nice reproductive ...

Richard Clarke , the counterterrorism czar to Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, was recently interviewed on NPR . Clarke talks about h...

Technological change is happening so fast that I'm starting to have a real hard time keeping up with all the latest gadgets, platforms a...

Journalist Quinn Norton recently gave a talk at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress which took place in Berlin during the first week of ...

This represents either the end or a new beginning for human civilization, but I haven't quite decided yet.

Apparently ethics books are the most stolen philosophy books. Why is this revelation creating severe cognitive dissonance in my brain? Esqu...

Think human enhancement is something new? Hardly. We are by definition the tool making species and have been overcoming our biological limit...

My latest audiocast has been posted here . You can subscribe to this feed . In this episode I discuss Bjork's colonization simulation an...

A number of science sites are proclaiming that the Fermi Paradox may have been solved by Rasmus Bjork, a physicist at the Niels Bohr instit...